Losses on contracts
By Scott Keith on 15 November 2018
Obviously assessing things like profitability of individual wrestlers is an inexact science, but which contract with a wrestler or tag-team (not counting 'celebrities' like Rodman, Master P etc) was the biggest money-LOSER
for :
(1)
WWF/E
(2)
NWA/WCW
(3)
Any other federation.
1. It's gotta be Lex Luger in 1992. They paid him a shitload of money in hopes of getting the WBF going and then spent hundreds of thousands in marketing on the Lex Express and never saw a dime back out of it. Well, obviously a FEW dimes, but you know I mean. I'd also nominate Brian Pillman, but he was never supposed to be a main event guy or anything, despite his big price tag.
2. I'm gonna go with Bret Hart in 97. Huge money to lure him away from the WWF, and then they barely pushed him near the top. Sting also had a monster guaranteed deal or seven over the years and never came close to justifying the money they were paying him.
3. The answer has to be someone from TNA, right? I can't think of who specifically, but they never really made money and paid lots of guys redonkulous deals, so we can probably safely say Kurt Angle.